We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud

Re:We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud by mplewis on Thursday June 07, 2018 @01:32AM (#17253519)

Here's a story about media manipulation from a reporter who Theranos tried to sell on the story: https://khn.org/news/reporters-notebook-the-tale-of-theranos...

I don't want to go full Elon "the media is incentivized to penalize me in particular" Musk, but the ethical thing this reporter did was to was cancel the Theranos feature. A less scrupulous reporter might have been happy to run with it.

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Re:We Shouldn’t Be Surprised at the Theranos Fraud by wodenokoto on Thursday June 07, 2018 @01:55AM (#17253623)

If they can prick a reporter, why not prick a patient and have them come back for a later follow-up where they do the real test. That way the reporter and theranos both get their soundbite.

I mean, it's not worse than setting off a fire alarm and cancel every body's blood test.

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